Ethanol, first

This is how it is: after 7.5 years of driving past the ethanol plant and never stopping, I went twice in three days.

I’ve been watching these dunes beside the plant for a few weeks now, and have been intrigued by the color variations in them so the other Sunday, the Patient Spouse* and I took a little drive. (Like Old People, really, on a Sunday afternoon drive to see stuff. Only we went the speed limit.)

Too bad I waited 7.5 years to drive less than a quarter of a mile off the highway to go look at the place. Oh, wait – hang on a minute and let me check Google street view… Well, it turns out the empty sign was there in January 2013 when the Google car went by. (Also the maize dunes weren’t there.) (Here it is.)

I yield to the mystery. Although I notice that even at the time of the Google camera car the ground under the frame looks different from the surrounding ground. But I’m sure I’ll sleep just fine tonight, unless this reply is not properly placed in the hierarchy of this thread. I won’t know until I hit Post Comment but it looks to me like I’m replying to Yvonne’s comment.